The annual Keep Jenkins Beautiful campaign set for April 24 is aimed at cleaning up areas such as this throughout the community. (Photo contributed) Spring is a great time for cleaning and pitching in to make Jenkins County Beautiful as part of the Great American Cleanup of Keep Georgia Beautiful and Keep America Beautiful.

Jenkins County’s fifth annual cleanup day is set for Saturday, April 24. Millen Better Hometown members, sponsor of the event, will be on the College Avenue side of the Jenkins County Courthouse to distribute trash bags, gloves, and vests to volunteers between 8-8:30 a.m. Items may also be picked up at the Millen- Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce office anytime during the week prior to April 24.

The opportunity to recycle electronics will be a special addition this year. Residents can dispose of old-non workingoutdated broken electronics without contaminating the landfill with them. A trailer will be parked behind the courthouse to load these materials into. Creative Recycling Systems of Georgia will pick up the items later and recycle them into usable components.

Accepted items for electronic recycling will include: personal computers (PCs), monitors, LCD screen/flat screen monitors, VCRs, radios, stereos, DVD players, microwaves, power supplies, rechargeable batteries, vacuums, banking equipment, telephones, pagers, networking equipment, laptops, keyboards, mice, power cables, medical equipment (non-hazardous), printers, copy machines, fax machines, cell phones, transformers, scanners, portable electronic devices, servers, HUBS, ink cartridges, toner cartridges, remotes, modems, projectors and cameras.

Unaccepted items for electronic recycling include: refrigerators, washer machines, clothes dryers, dish washers, mercury containing devices (thermometers, fire alarms), hazardous chemicals/materials, light bulbs, florescent tubes and Bio-waste.

Participants in cleanup day are asked to pick up trash until noon and bring bags of trash to the courthouse square immediately after finishing. Trash will be loaded on trailers to be taken to the landfill. Bags of trash can also be deposited in the nearest county trash containers. No tires are allowed in county trash containers.

The City of Millen will participate by having the trash picked up city-wide prior to April 24. County residents who have difficulty disposing of items such as refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, scrap metal or abandoned vehicles can get assistance in removing these items by contacting scrap metal dealers. Anyone needing help in locating a dealer can call the chamber office at 982- 5595.

Tipping fees at the Jenkins County Landfill will be waived for personal disposal April 23- 24. Tires will be accepted at the land fill, but there will be a charge. Anyone who needs a schedule of charges for tires should call the Jenkins County Commissioners’ office at 982- 2536. Commercial disposal fees will not be waived.

Millen Better Hometown is recruiting groups to participate in cleaning up Jenkins County. Individuals who are not part of an organized group are welcome to join other groups or to work on their own. If April 24 is not a convenient date, groups are free to choose a different time.

Picking up trash is only one option for participating in Keep Jenkins Beautiful. Any group is free to choose its own project. In the past groups have planted shrubbery, pruned plants, put out pine straw, weeded flower beds and painted buildings. Any project is worthwhile if it helps to beautify the county.

It is important to Millen Better Hometown to have a record of individuals or groups who work and the amount of trash collected. Please call the chamber office at 982-5595 if you plan to participate.